The Toepfers just returned from the Venice UnTour and shared these thoughts and images. Venice is a miracle marvel: A unique city with its magical and spectacular scenery that claims a priceless art and historical heritage was a true miracle of creative genius. It is an engineering marvel built on mud, sand, and slime in…
Eating is one of my favorite parts of living; it informs my travels and even my choices of destinations. Italy would have been top of list even if I hadn’t been fortunate enough to work on our UnTours there. Over my years with UnTours, I have spent a lot of time there, working and eating….
Over Sue Baker’s 15 years with UnTours, she’s had lots of time to travel and build memories. On the occasion of our 40th anniversary, she shared these gems from her work and personal travels with UnTours in Europe. Fun memories of UnTourists… Our former staff person in Rome led our UnTour group on…
Montalcino, Top of your Bucket List So much to see and do in Italy. Of course you will likely start with Venice, Florence and Rome, what we knowlingly call The Big Three. (Wink. Nudge.) You may have gotten into the Tuscan countryside or the Amalfi Coast. If you’re lucky (and/or savvy), you’ve dug more deeply into these places….
Andi has been with UnTours for 18 years. In that time she has presided over historic growth. When she joined our staff, Tuscany was our only offering in Italy, and one of her first tasks was to help start a second Italian UnTour in Venice. In the meantime, she has set up Venice and seven…
Photo by UnTourist Ron Anderson As you may know, we had the inaugural Unny Awards just recently. These awards are our way of recognizing the regions which have welcomed UnTours all these years. The Unnies are fun and lighthearted and that’s how we like things around here. We like to think of them as the…
Since I started working here way back in 2011, the UnTours regions have been calling on me to give them some attention. Actually, not just attention, but distinction. Now, I know they are all big enough to speak for themselves. They don’t need you to tell them they’re great; we all already know that. What…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our first week was a return to Venice, staying in the same apartment as on a prior UnTour vacation so we knew beforehand where to shop, eat, pick up the vaparetto, and how to enjoy the special ambience and memorable sights of that ancient…
Woops, we were a little topsy-turvy this week. Our excerpts of Susan Umberger’s delightful account of her Venice-Tuscany UnTour Sampler came to you backwards, as she was in Venice (today’s entry) first, and Tuscany (last week’s entry)afterwards . But you can read her entire triplog here, in the proper order! My husband and I arrived…